Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13734
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Andrew Wilson represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Andrew is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andrew Wilson appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. The Royal Tenenbaums is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with F. Gary Gray, Lawrence Sher, David Frankel and others, Andrew Wilson helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward · Rushmore (1998) as Coach Beck · Whip It (2009) as Razor
Career snapshot
Ranked #13734 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1996–2024
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Royal Tenenbaums
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Royal Tenenbaums
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Comedy
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Never Been Kissed, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Never Been Kissed, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket.
Most productive era
2000s
9 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.83 films | 7.12 films | 5.31 film | — |
| Action | — | 5.73 films | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.83 films | 5.98 films | 5.75 films | 6.41 film |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 5.01 film | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | 6.21 film | 5.52 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996Bottle Rocket
Where our catalogue meets this career, as John "Future Man" Mapplethorpe.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2024Lift
The current state of the argument, as Newscaster (Madrid).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
18 of 18 films
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Coach Beck
Directed by Wes Anderson
as John "Future Man" Mapplethorpe
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Newscaster (Madrid)
Directed by F. Gary Gray
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Farmer Father / Tex Hayward gives Andrew Wilson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Coach Beck
Rushmore (1998)
Performance score7.2
Rushmore asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coach Beck is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John "Future Man" Mapplethorpe
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Performance score6.9
Bottle Rocket asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John "Future Man" Mapplethorpe is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Razor
Whip It (2009)
Performance score6.6
Whip It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Razor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
Start here. The Royal Tenenbaums is the clearest statement of what Andrew Wilson does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andrew at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Same director as The Royal Tenenbaums, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Rushmore (1998)
Same director as Bottle Rocket, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Whip It (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Rushmore but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lift (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Whip It — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Anderson
Director
3 films together
Notably The Royal Tenenbaums
McG
Director
2 films together
Notably Charlie's Angels
Bobby Farrelly
Director
2 films together
Notably Fever Pitch
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Never Been Kissed
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably Zoolander
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Serving Sara
Drew Barrymore
Director
1 film together
Notably Whip It
James L. Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably How Do You Know
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Year
Lawrence Sher
Director
1 film together
Notably Father Figures
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Lift
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Royal TenenbaumsBobby Farrelly
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fever PitchMcG
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Charlie's AngelsDrew Barrymore
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whip ItF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LiftBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZoolanderRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Never Been KissedDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big YearLawrence Sher
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father FiguresReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Serving SaraJames L. Brooks
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How Do You KnowSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Never Been Kissed
as School Guard
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zoolander
as Hansel's Corner Guy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Andrew Wilson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
17 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Lift
as Newscaster (Madrid)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Never Been Kissed
as School Guard
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bottle Rocket
as John "Future Man" Mapplethorpe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Farmer Father / Tex Hayward
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
as Cop
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bottle Rocket
as John "Future Man" Mapplethorpe
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Charlie's Angels
as Corwin's Driver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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